wessite.com // web tech, coding & design http://wessite.com/ en-us Nucleus CMS v3.32 � Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://wessite.com//nucleus/nucleus2.gif wessite.com // web tech, coding & design http://wessite.com/ You Don't Mess with the Zohan http://wessite.com/item/2008/07/you-don-t-mess-with-the-zohan Get Flash to see this video. Item URL: You Don't Mess with the Zohan

Check out the trailer for Adam Sandler's new movie "You Don't Mess With The Zohan". It's hilarious; “smell it, smell it, smell it, now take it”
]]> Funny Stuff http://wessite.com/item/2008/07/you-don-t-mess-with-the-zohan Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:32:45 -0700 5 Ways to get your Website Noticed http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/5-ways-to-get-your-website-noticed Get NoticedYour website is just one of the billion sites parked on the World Wide Web. Chances are, you don’t think yours will ever get noticed. We hear your cries for cyber attention. Here are five ways to get people clicking on to your site.

1. Make sure it’s professional looking
No one likes looking at website that reminds them of a book report they wrote back in school. Invest in learning a good web design program (Dreamweaver MX and Microsoft Frontpage are good picks), and let your creative juices flow. Make sure it’s compelling, well-designed, and organized. People don’t exactly find it fun to weed through haystacks of cyberfiles to get the information that they want. On that note, don’t make it a heavy site. Putting up some flash intros may be great eye candy, but the average internet surfer only waits 10 seconds for a page to load, and then they’re off to the next.2. Put your URL on every search engine possible
Putting your URL on business cards and bugging your family and friends to check out your site won’t exactly increase traffic. Submitting it to search engines will make it easier for people to find you, provided that your webpage carries the topics they’re looking for. To understand how a search engine works, think of it as a “spider”: it crawls through your website, picking up words and information which would later be indexed in the search engine’s database. So make sure you pepper your site with keywords you think are relevant to what people are looking for. Web directories, like Yahoo!, are operated by humans who actually categorize the websites themselves. If you don’t feel like submitting your website to numerous directories, consider subscribing to sites like www.submit-it.com, who, for a fee, will automatically submit your site to search engines and directories for you.


3. Link everywhere
Find other sites that carry similar content as yours and ask to exchange links. Create banners to be placed on other peoples’ websites, and offer to the same for them on your site. Add your URL on your e-mail signature. Join webrings if you must—there’s nothing like strength in numbers.

4. Advertise offline
The world of cyberspace isn’t enough to get you noticed. Write up press releases and send them to local newspapers and magazines. Print out fliers to be distributed. Just make sure that your site is already up and running to avoid giving people a bad impression (no one likes getting pumped up for something only to get disappointed).

5. Interact with your readers
Put up forums or message boards for your visitors to interact with each other. Chat rooms are often time-consuming for some, while message boards allows them to check back every so often for replies. Create an e-mail list so you can update your visitors about new developments, and always be open to feedback—that’s what will make your site even better.

About the author: For comments and inquiries about the article visit http://www.ucreative.com]]> Web Development http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/5-ways-to-get-your-website-noticed Thu, 6 Mar 2008 04:53:28 -0800 5 Keys to Making Money Online http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/5-keys-to-making-money-online Dollar RollWould you believe there are tens of thousands of people who have found ways to make money online? Not only that, but their incomes are significant and growing, due to little competition and low cost of entry. If I can do it, then there is no reason why you can't. You can literally begin making money right away. There are many, many, opportunities online, but here are the 5 factors you really need to consider, to guarantee your success:

1. Set your goals
As with any business you need to set goals. Goals help you visualize where you want to go, and keep you motivated when you get up in the morning. You goal may be to earn $500 or $10000 a month, it may be to take that dream vacation, or it may be to give up your job. These are all great goals. It is imperative that you write them down and reread them often. You need a short term goal - e.g monthly goal, to keep you motivated from day to day and a longer term goal 1-2 years - to keep you on track and prevent you from chucking it in. I am confident that if you adopt a positive attitude and embrace your goals then you will soon be making money online.2. Take time to research
As I alluded to earlier there are many people making money online - and there are thousands of different businesses that you can try. The internet is a mine field of information and “making money online” opportunities are not difficult to find. However you will need to decipher the genuine opportunities from the scams. Many online promises are just methods to extract money from you. Some do's and don'ts

DON'T fall for the “get rich quick schemes” that promise huge returns in record time
DO try and email or telephone for more information
DO search online for feedback on the opportunity e.g. try name of opportunity + scam
DON'T part with money without consulting a friend you can trust and/or sleeping on it.

3. Find something that you like
You're the boss now - so do yourself a favor and choose something you enjoy. This will greatly enhance your chances of success. A few things to consider:
Do you enjoy writing?
Do you enjoy talking to people?
Do you enjoy working on the computer?
Do you have a flair for sales?
Are there particular things that you are passionate about e.g sports, music?
Do you want to be contactable 24x7?
Do you want to have flexible/fixed hours?
Personally I like to work on my computer on my own time and my choice of internet business matches this. Find out what suits you, and you can weed out the business ventures which are not for you. Don't settle for second best - choose something you are comfortable with.

4. Find something worth your while
While it is a good idea to avoid the sales pitch that promises the sun, moon, and stars; it is also important that you don't take the safe option - that guarantees $5 an hour for sending emails, filling our surveys, or licking stamps. These amount to you underselling yourself, because the opportunities of making money on the internet are so much greater. Look for systems which offer a good monthly return for a few hours work a day - if you find something with a residual income all the better.

5. Anything for an easier life!
One of my motivations for venturing into internet marketing was to create an easier life for myself. As I sat in my day job I used to think - “There must be easier ways to make money” - and there are! Earning a living online means that you have the luxury of working from home and choosing your own hours. It is important that you can exploit these perks, by being able to take time off, take extra vacations and spend more time with your family. You need to avoid the 40-50 hours a week for the sake of your sanity.

You have taken the first step by reading this article - you now just need to act upon it. I wish you the very best in your online endeavors.

About the author: Keith Kingston is a highly successful affiliate marketer who is dying to share the methods he uses with you. Find out today about his guaranteed way to make money online at http://www.earnmoremoneyonline.com]]> Earn Money http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/5-keys-to-making-money-online Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:20:43 -0800 The Love Guru Trailer http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/the-love-guru-trailer

Get Flash to see this video. Item URL: The Love Guru Trailer

Story: Pitka (Meyers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player (Malco) whose wife left him for a rival athlete (Timberlake).

Featuring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley, Meagan Good, John Oliver, Verne Troyer, Romany Malco, Jim Gaffigan.]]> Funny Stuff http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/the-love-guru-trailer Wed, 5 Mar 2008 05:05:21 -0800 Download FLV YouTube Easy in Safari http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/download-flv-youtube-easy-in-safari YouTube video. If you are browsing in a safari browser of apple it's actually very easy to get this url of the video file without using such a retrieval website. Because the addresses of everything which is downloaded to see an internet page is stored temporarily in the Activity monitor. Just click "window" in the upper menu of safari and choose "Activity monitor". Now a window will open, something like this:

Safari's Activity Monitor

Now just select the flv url, copy it, enter it in your browser url box and there you go. You can use this method on almost every flash video website for that matter. ]]> Apple http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/download-flv-youtube-easy-in-safari Wed, 5 Mar 2008 04:42:40 -0800 What is PageRank? http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/what-is-pagerank Google PagerankChances are you have been on the Internet and have been surfing in and out of websites looking for valuable information pertaining to a favorite topic or researching a subject for school or work. As you type in keyword(s) you match the information you are searching for on Google, you come up with 10,000 pages of information. It’s virtually impossible to go through every one, so you refine your search by adding more exclusive keywords. Voila the number of pages reduces to around 1,000. Still this is a lot of pages, but you start looking through the information to find what you want.

As you go through the first 10 links on the page, WHAM! The information you needed to find was in the first or second in order of PageRank. You wonder how did they get such a high rank on Google? You may think it was very expensive to get that site at the top of the heap. The funny thing is, with a little know how and about $75 you too can go for the top.Search Engine Optimization or “SEO”, has become a standard in the web design industry, every customer of a good web designer wants to be number one in their keyword and may be willing to pay the extra money to get there. A good web designer will dress up a web sites home page to match the requirements of their client on specific keywords. The client will also pay more for the exclusivity to remain there untouched. SEO has become a niche for a lot of web companies. They know if they can get the company to the top fast, the word of mouth will be helpful toward their business.

Through specialized META tags (hidden group of keywords) the web designer will strategically place keywords multiple times in the title bar, keywords, and even as hidden text. Some search engines have figured these tricks of the trade out and have banned certain websites from their indexes. Google has become the engine of choice for a lot of people today. There is a different logic Google uses to calculate page rank and keywords is only a portion of it.

Google actually uses a specialized mathematical equation to place your site in a predetermined order. First things first, if your website is a keyword, that does not automatically give you a top spot. It will take time to move up the ranks and you should register with Google as soon as possible to drive your rank upwards. But just having the right URL (Universal Resource Locator) doesn’t guarantee the top spot either. You must also be swapping or reciprocating links with other Google users. The more you use Google websites that are indexed the faster and higher your site will go in the ranks.

A Google robot will visit your site frequently so continue to modify your code and keep checking its rank and status. Eventually, your site will drive up the ranks and land on top. It may take time and work, but you will get the hang of keeping it there once you employ the right mix of keywords with links. Some companies can charge up to $1,000 for the top spot, they employ the same techniques, even though they don’t want you to know this. Keep your META tags, title, keywords and content in line with your keywords and continuously look to optimize them. Under no circumstances take another persons keywords off of their code; this is potentially dangerous as you could be violating copyright laws.

About the author:
Jakob Jelling is the founder of http://www.sitetube.com]]> SEO http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/what-is-pagerank Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:28:25 -0800 Top 5 Most Common SEO Mistakes http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/top-5-most-common-seo-mistakes
1) Keyword tag – A keyword tag is for keywords, but not for any keywords. You can’t just stuff this tag with keywords that your entire site is related to. The tags should reflect keywords only on that particular page; not the entire site and not every keyword you think your site might be searched on. Also, you should have no more then 20 words in the tag. You should not repeat any word more than 3 times. If you sell tickets, for example, don't write: Broadway tickets, circus tickets, hockey tickets, boxing tickets and so on. Do use Broadway, circus, hockey, boxing, tickets and so on.2) Abstract tag – It is sometimes used as a replacement for or combined with a description tag. However, more and more people are using these to stuff keywords. Search engines like Google are interested in what is on the page. More specifically, what visitors can view. In my opinion, the abstract tag has no place on a site.

3) Description Tag – The whole point behind this tag is to describe what the “page” is about. Keywords related to the page should be implemented as well. The limit on words should be 20 – 25. I see many website owners stuffing this tag with keywords, or having a description that is entirely too lengthy. Stay within these guidelines and you will be fine.

4) Title tag – This, to me, is the most important tag. This is the first tag the search engine reads. It tells the search engine what the” page” is about. Don't put your web address here. Do not add your company name in the beginning of this tag either. It should not exceed 60 characters.

5) Content - If you notice, I have been commenting on relevancy to the “page”, not your overall site. Each page has it’s own keywords. Tag the title tag, description and keyword tags. All of these keywords should be the same. Add them to your content as well. Now your page should be fairly well optimized.

Why do sites fall short? Simple, content is not optimized. Search engines are, for the most part, pretty basic. You type in a search term and it retrieves sites containing those terms while also taking a few other factors into account. So, if your site doesn’t have these terms, how will you be found? You won’t. Over do it with keywords and you will experience the same result, but for different reasons. Sometimes reading everything about SEO can be bad. Trying too many tricks, tips or methods is like too many cooks spoiling the soup. In the end they can do more bad than good. These are very basic rules that should be followed by all. In, doubt? Always consult or hire an SEO professional.

About the author:
For affordable SEO, SEM, web design and more visit Joe’s site http://www.mr-seo.com
To Read the latest News on SEO read Joe’s blog http://mrseonewz.blogspot.com/
Or, read more articles on SEO visit http://mr-seo.blogspot.com]]> SEO http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/top-5-most-common-seo-mistakes Tue, 4 Mar 2008 13:21:42 -0800 Javascript Image Popup Script http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/javascript-image-popup-script
function Foto(img,txt,width,height) {

        foto1 = document.createElement('img');
        foto1.src = img;
       
        if(!txt) {txt=img}
        vars="width="+width+",height="+height+",left="+((screen.width-width)/2)+",top="+((screen.height-height)/2);
       
        newwindow=window.open("","newwindow",vars);
        newwindow.document.clear();
        newwindow.document.write("<html>\n<head>\n<title>"+txt+"</title>\n");
        newwindow.document.write("<meta http-equiv=\"imagetoolbar\" content=\"no\">\n");
        newwindow.document.write("</head>\n\n<body style=\"margin:0px; padding:0px; cursor:pointer;\" onblur=\"javascript:window.close();\">\n");
        newwindow.document.write("<img src=\""+img+"\" border=\"0\" onclick=\"javascript:window.close();\">\n");
        newwindow.document.write("</body>\n</html>\n");
        if(newwindow.document.focus) {newwindow.document.focus();}
        newwindow.document.close();
}

To use this script save this code in a file called popup.js or click here to download it and upload it to your server with your favorite ftp client. The next step is to add a small piece of code to your head part of your page, something like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/popup.js"></script>

Now you can add popup links to your pictures by using a link format like the following:

<a href="/img/bigimage.jpg" onclick="Foto(this.href, 'My Photo Title', '800', '600'); return false;">Link</a>

Notice the href attribute just points to the image url not a javascript function, so when a visitor who has javascript disabled clicks the link or thumbnail he will still go to the big image in the same window. This is also the case with the crawlers of search engines, so your images will still get indexed.]]> Javascript http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/javascript-image-popup-script Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:51:49 -0800 Tips for maximizing Google AdSense Earnings http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/tips-for-maximizing-google-adsense-earnings Google AdsenseDespite what you may hear, the Google AdSense program is not for everyone. There are some types of web sites that do poorly no matter how hard the owners try, and there are others that should be doing well but the webmaster simply isn’t putting in the effort to make things happen. Here are some tips to make AdSense work better for you. If you do them all and you’re still not having any luck, then you just might be running one of those sites that don’t make money

1. Determine if your visitors are “in the mood”

Like I mentioned at the top of this article, some web sites just don’t work with pay-per-click programs. The best performing sites fall into one of these categories:

• Sites where users go and expect to buy something while they are there. E-commerce sites fit the bill here..
• Sites where users go to find specific information on something that they want to buy now. Music and video review sites, vacation information sites, resume building sites, etc. You don’t have to actually be selling these types of things; your site can just be a mecca for information pertaining to these things. Then, when the visitor comes to read your content, they are more likely to click on your ads.
• Sites where people who have disposable income and a credit card like to visit. This includes sites with money management, investing and lifestyle content.
• Sites that draw a large amount of new users every day. Free coupon sites and “How to” sites are good examples.
• Sites where people go who expect to read ads. Classified ads and shopping comparison sites fit into this category.2. Make sure that your visitors don’t feel that you just want to grab their money

Give them plenty of relevant and well-written content. If writing isn’t your best skill then hire someone to do it for you. Good content brings steady traffic and steady traffic pays the bills.

3. Play by the rules

Google has some very specific Terms of Service (https://www.google.com/adsense/policies) for participating in their AdSense program. Learn those rules and follow them so you don’t lose all of your investment by getting shut out.

4. Use the tools that Google gives you

Google gives you tools for determining the best keywords for your site, measuring ad performance, and setting up different ad “channels” for fine-tuning ad results. These guys and girls are the 800 lb. Gorillas in the Pay-Per-Click market. They didn’t build these tools just to keep their programmers busy. Take advantage of their knowledge for they are very big and you are not!

5. Tweak, fine-tune and then tweak again

You should never be happy with your AdSense performance. If it’s good, then you need to make it great. If it’s great then you need to make it amazing. If it’s amazing then you need to take it to the UPS club. The UPS club? Google sends all checks over $10,000 per month to the webmaster via UPS overnight delivery. Now there’s a club that I wouldn’t mind belonging to.

6. Get more traffic

No matter how much traffic you have, you need more. More eyeballs translate to more clicks. Even if you’re only pulling a 2% click-through. That’s a lot of clicks when you have thousands of visitors each day.

7. Experiment with new keywords

New keywords can bring new ads and new eyeballs along with it. Set up some new pages on your site and experiment with different content. Once you get something that’s working then refer back to Tip # 5.

You can see results in near real time when you use Google’s AdWords. Don’t be afraid to be different. If something that everyone else is doing doesn’t work for you, then invent something that does work and get it on your site.

About the author: Diane provides marketing and internet profit tips.
For more Google AdSense tips, visit http://www.adsense.deeljeabiz.com]]> Earn Money http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/tips-for-maximizing-google-adsense-earnings Tue, 4 Mar 2008 08:59:12 -0800 CSS Zebra Effect in Nucleus http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/css-zebra-effect-in-nucleus
First I made a little zebra.php file with the following code:

<?php
global $z;
if($z % 2 !== 0) {
      echo " class=\"zebra\"";$z = 1;
}
$z++;
?>


To add the this in the iteration of my items I went to the my headline template and added this in a phpinclude tag like so:

<li<%phpinclude(zebra.php)%>>
<div class="date"><%date%></div>
<h2><a href="<%itemlink%>" title="Read entry: <%title(attribute)%>"><%syndicate_title(50)%></a></h2>
</li>


The last step is to add some css to make a difference in background:

.zebra
{
      background:#CCC;
}


That's it! Now you have a cool zebra effect.
]]> Nucleus http://wessite.com/item/2008/03/css-zebra-effect-in-nucleus Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:02:48 -0800